The Dow Chemical Company is the second-largest producer of toxic chemical waste in the nation, according to a new report by the Environmental Protection Agency. Rebecca Williams reports:

The report shows that Dow produced more than 600 million pounds of toxic chemical waste in the reporting year 2010. Ben Morlock, a spokesperson for Dow, says 97 percent of that toxic chemical waste was treated, recycled or reused. He says the rest of that waste – the remaining three percent – was disposed of in accordance with the company’s state and federal permits. The report says close to 4 billion pounds of toxic chemicals were released into the environment nationwide. This is a 16 percent increase from 2009. Dow, the EPA and the state of Michigan have wrestled over the cleanup of that dioxin pollution for more than 30 years.